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- Are you the asshole if you “loathe” writers who are a little too online? Kristen Arnett answers this and other awkward literary questions. | Lit Hub Craft
- Lit Hub published over 2,500 pieces in 2024, and these are the ones our readers clicked on the most. | Lit Hub
- From Ripley to My Brilliant Friend, Maris Kreizman considers her favorite book to television adaptations of 2024. | Lit Hub TV
- “For simply having loved, you will change; you will learn something more about the world and probably about yourself.” Katherine J. Chen rediscovers Henry James. | Lit Hub Criticism
- Kelli María Korducki surveys the landscape of divorce novels. | The Walrus
- “It turns out that, upon reflection, the Almighty’s views are pretty straightforwardly those of the average North American conservative.” Yeah, Jordan Peterson’s views of the Bible are about what you’d expect. | Jacobin
- How Marcella Hazan demystified Italian cooking for America. | Esquire
- “A solitude of being one with others and just that—being, being so deeply inside oneself that there is no outside of oneself; there is no tension between you and the world.” Roger Reeves reflects on images of Black men resting. | Emergence Magazine
- Troll-man-to-lover: When 17th century Swedish courts investigated supernatural love. | Atlas Obscura
- “When you describe yourself as a ‘writer’ but your writing has become hard to find, it creates a crisis not just of profession, but identity.” s.e. smith on what it means to be a writer on the internet (when the internet is disappearing). | The Verge
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